Friday, April 15, 2011

Just around the corner...

a favorite place (when I close my eyes)
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

Today is a day where anything seems possible. The sky is grey and the leaves are brilliant green. Flowers are blooming and bees are buzzing around. The air is cool and everything is a verdant paradise. Spring is here, no doubt about it. I love these days. It stormed in the night, bringing with it this cooler weather. It feels like something magical is about to happen just around the corner, the air feels charged and the music sounds even sweeter. I hope your Friday is treating you well.

Besides all this flowery talk of Spring, I managed to paint again this week! I am slowly but surely getting back on track. I told you I would have eight new miniature flashcard series pieces to share with you and I do! If you are interested in any of these pieces just email me at megancha@gmail.com to reserve your painting.

The "flashcard" series is a new selection of affordable miniature works on paper. The paper isn't perfect, there are some rough bits where the tape masked the borders. These works are about the process, the immediacy, the action of making. These are flashcards and the paintings are the answer. You provide the questions.

trajectory b
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
Sold

the vines
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

static
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

solace
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

restructuring
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
Sold


quiet voices
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25

where two points meet
mixed media on paper 6x4"
© 2011 Megan Chapman
$25


In other news, I also have a new 16x20" painting to share with you as well! This is just a quick studio snap shot. I am very excited to have worked on canvas again, this is the first canvas painting I have worked on since my Falling into Sound exhibition in November 2010.

this is the part (where she wakes up)
mixed media on canvas 16x20"
$425
© 2011 Megan Chapman


I keep feeling like I am not painting enough, but when I look back I know that it is not true. Since January, I have painted twenty Maps of the night, and sold all but two of them. I have also painted these sixteen flashcard series paintings and have sold ten of them so far. I also painted the above 16x 20" work. Not to mention I completed the huge seven foot by five and a half foot painting commission as seen below.

Silence in the drifting
mixed media on canvas 7x5.5'
© 2011 Megan Chapman
commission/sold

All this was created while working and helping with the Fayetteville Underground, writing about art and beyond, maintaining my photography, and selling other works. I also happen to have a life outside of art (I do - I really do!!). I am writing this to remember. It is so important to remember, because it is so easy to forget and discredit. I would say that this has been a very productive three and a half months. Let's see what happens next!

As always keep fighting. The world needs your art.

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful work Megan. I really like this is the part (where she wakes up). I think it's very feminine.

    I have an all-white garden... that is how I have been putting my creativity into the world.

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  2. Thank you Wrenna!

    And guess what is finally coming your way.... why yes, the long awaited paper painting- I sent it Tuesday. Thanks for your patience.

    I would love to see your all white garden- sounds lovely!

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  3. I am SO excited to see this work on paper. Your flashcards are all so strinking I don't know how I would choose between them.

    I have put a picture of one of my pots up on my blog... it's a bit blurry, being a cellphone picture.

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  4. Trajectory B jumped out at me today. And I LOVE your commission painting, Silence in the Drifting. You're such a talent - I love the spontaneity of the flash card series. I also love the deep stillness and layers in SITD - it must be amazing at such a huge size.
    Great going Megan for 2011. I feel like you sometimes in the feeling of not having done much - you are right to write it down. My blog helps me remember too :))
    Have a great weekend and week. ☺

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